Icons (TV series)

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Icons

Icons logo.
Genre Documentary
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 98
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel G4
Original run May 1, 2002 – Present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

For other senses of this word, see icon (disambiguation). For a list of icons for use on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Icons.

Icons is a documentary TV show on G4 that used to focus on significant people, companies, products, history, and milestones in world of video games. It was relaunched in 2006 and now focuses entirely on pop culture.

In December 2005, the editor for Icons announced on the G4 forums that he had been fired, and that G4 was retooling the show for 2006.

On May 10, 2006, it was announced that Icons was relaunching on June 3 with an episode focusing on J.J. Abrams. [1] The show will feature a broader scope on things and people "men 18-34 care about, admire and emulate." Future episodes will focus on Marc Ecko, The Onion, and Family Guy. This change in format had been suspected, due to the recent episodes about George A. Romero, Frank Miller and the history of the King Kong franchise.

The classic video game themed episodes continue to air on the network sporadically, under the new name of Game Makers.

Contents

[edit] Season One

  1. Oddworld Inhabitants
  2. Nolan Bushnell
  3. Pac-Man
  4. Lara Croft
  5. Activision
  6. Shigeru Miyamoto
  7. EverQuest
  8. BioWare
  9. Will Wright
  10. Women in Gaming
  11. Insomniac Games
  12. Sid Meier
  13. Scary Games
  14. Richard Garriott
  15. Bruce Shelley
  16. John Madden NFL Football
  17. Stealth Games
  18. The Lord of the Rings (Vivendi Universal)

[edit] Season Two

  1. Atari
  2. Music Makers
  3. Unreal
  4. Yu Suzuki
  5. Intellivision
  6. The Legend of Zelda
  7. Xbox
  8. Arcade
  9. The History of E3
  10. LucasArts
  11. Red Storm
  12. Warren Spector
  13. PC Gaming
  14. The Crash
  15. Games in the Military
  16. Naughty Dog
  17. Mario
  18. Onimusha Halloween '03
  19. Mega Man
  20. Yuji Naka
  21. Final Fantasy
  22. Dungeons & Dragons

[edit] Season Three

  1. Music Games
  2. Sega Dreamcast
  3. ESRB
  4. Peter Molyneux
  5. Tetris
  6. Electronic Arts
  7. Game Boy
  8. Donkey Kong
  9. Nobuo Uematsu
  10. Doom
  11. Dead or Alive
  12. SNK
  13. Mortal Kombat
  14. Prince of Persia
  15. Mark Cuban
  16. Metal Gear Solid
  17. Half-Life
  18. Bungie
  19. Apple II
  20. Fighting Games

[edit] Season Four

  1. Gran Turismo
  2. Splinter Cell
  3. Frank Miller
  4. Tim Schafer
  5. Star Wars Games
  6. Ralph Baer
  7. PlayStation
  8. George A. Romero
  9. Xbox 360
  10. NES
  11. King Kong

[edit] Season Five

  1. J.J. Abrams
  2. SuicideGirls (later aired uncut on July 1st)
  3. Marc Ecko
  4. Michelle Rodríguez
  5. Kevin Smith
  6. Jamie Kennedy
  7. Shepard Fairey
  8. The Smoking Gun
  9. Seth Green
  10. Lollapalooza
  11. The Onion
  12. British Music
  13. Sacha Baron Cohen
  14. Tom "Tsquared" Taylor
  15. Chuck "The Ice Man" Liddell
  16. Tony "Mad Dog" Alva
  17. Frank Miller
  18. Eli Roth